To: unspun
Nothing I've said would infer that I believe that truth is concrete, in natural terms. It is universal (or it is not truth). One's inclination to counterintuitively believe otherwise indicates one's fallacy. Believing and knowing are two different things; beliefs are metaphysically based in mysticism and the term "mystical truth" is an oxymoron -- look up truth and oxymoron to see for yourself -- whereas actually knowing something has a metaphysical basis in reality and the term "universal truth" does apply, until proven otherwise.
To: thinktwice
I don't need to relinquish the English language to Objectivist or Logical Positivist constraints and censorship. I'll travel along the tangents you've posted far enough to say that...
1. I know that 2 + 2 = 4. I also believe it. I believe that God exists. I also know it.
2. A truth is actual, whether it is proven through material means or not (facts do not not bend to man). I may believe something that is outside of the physical realm and be wrong or right. If I am wrong, my belief is false. If I am right, my belief in something true.
3. A universal truth cannot be proven otherwise.
(It's not about me.)
(It's not about you.)
327 posted on
02/09/2003 8:11:30 PM PST by
unspun
(A = A, wherever A is, whatever A refers to.)
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